Top takeaways from SEC media days

11:20 PM,
Jul. 18, 2014

Alabama coach Nick Saban signs autographs for fans at the SEC media days in Hoover this past week. Saban is staying mum on who will be the starting quarterback for the Tide this season in place of the graduated A.J. McCarron.

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HOOVER, Ala. - Hotel employees began the process of removing the chairs, tables, dividing wall, soda machine and surge protectors from the second-floor conference center in the Hyatt Regency Birmingham less than one hour after Kentucky's Mark Stoops closed SEC Media Days, sending a clear and irrefutable message:

The time for talk is over. Football season is here.

Yet the week-long collection of coaches, administrators and media revealed factors that should bleed from "talking season," as South Carolina's Steve Spurrier termed the proceedings, into this highly anticipated SEC ...